Mary Kozlovski with additional reporting by Vong Sokheng
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Nuon Chea (left), aka ‘Brother Number Two’, attends a hearing at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on the outskirts of Phnom Penh yesterday. ECCC/Pool
The Phnom Penh Post
Defence lawyers for former Khmer Rouge Brother Number Two Nuon Chea yesterday criticised remarks allegedly made by Prime Minister Hun Sen about their client, during the first day of evidence hearings this year at the United Nations-backed tribunal.
Co-defence counsel for Nuon Chea Michiel Pestman said in court that the alleged remarks by Hun Sen, quoted by a journalist at a press conference in Vietnam last week, referred to Nuon Chea as a “killer” and described his statement in court last month as “deceitful”.
“This is a very clear statement about the guilt of Nuon Chea by a high government official,” Pestman said in court. During testimony at the tribunal last year, 85-year-old Nuon Chea claimed that Vietnam had made repeated attempts to invade Cambodia.
Pestman said in court that the journalist had quoted Hun Sen as allegedly calling their client “a killer and a perpetrator of genocide”.
Defence lawyers for former Khmer Rouge Brother Number Two Nuon Chea yesterday criticised remarks allegedly made by Prime Minister Hun Sen about their client, during the first day of evidence hearings this year at the United Nations-backed tribunal.
Co-defence counsel for Nuon Chea Michiel Pestman said in court that the alleged remarks by Hun Sen, quoted by a journalist at a press conference in Vietnam last week, referred to Nuon Chea as a “killer” and described his statement in court last month as “deceitful”.
“This is a very clear statement about the guilt of Nuon Chea by a high government official,” Pestman said in court. During testimony at the tribunal last year, 85-year-old Nuon Chea claimed that Vietnam had made repeated attempts to invade Cambodia.
Pestman said in court that the journalist had quoted Hun Sen as allegedly calling their client “a killer and a perpetrator of genocide”.
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